Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This story is making the rounds in Western Europe-and a lot of businessmen choke a little as they laugh. Though things have not really reached that stage, the joke symbolizes the changing mood and manner of labor in many of the free world's industrial nations. In prospering northern Europe, in Australia and even in Japan, most of whose economies for centuries have been based on an abundance of cheap and diligent workers, labor shortages are now the rule. Being so sought after, the workers have grown as finicky as French chefs about everything from drafts...
...antipeople who put freeze in their anti-cars, eat pasto for an anti-appetizer, take a dote to counteract antipoison or a biotic against anti-disease or a histamine for an anticold, who join the Defamation League and who put macassars on their anti-sofas. But antimatter is no joke. What is really fearful about it all is that contact of matter with its antimatter counterpart produces an explosive reaction that annihilates both...
...comedy more than two hours long, some of the sight gags, chase sequences and romantic interludes add more weight than wit; and an aged running joke about German militarism threatens at moments to send the show into a nosedive. But the day is nearly always saved by an inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test...
Other Swedish papers belittled the expose; one went so far as to speculate that it might be an "unfunny practical joke." But it was no laughing matter to the government. While admitting that the Nazi peril had been exaggerated by Expressen, the government nevertheless charged Lundahl with "armed threat against lawful order," an offense that could jail him for ten years. Meanwhile Granquist, for fear of his life, fled to Israel, where the newspapers were giving the story almost as big a play as the Swedish press...
...Berry has been a rather remote figure at the Medical School Quadrangle on Longwood Avenue in Roxbury. His contacts with students are minimal; his associations with Faculty men are often highly formal; and the great amount of time he spends away from the School is something of a standing joke...